[dippinsniffer]

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This post has been edited by dippinsniffer: 05/04/2011, 11:21 AM

[Snagglepussed]

And your BP will go through the roof! LOL You naughty thing you!
I remember eating liquorice when I was pregnant and I had woefully low BP all through pregnancies!

I was going to get up to go to the gym this morning but these last two nights I have been studying Statistics til 11.30pm and I was washed out and could not physically get out of bed....UGH!
Just as well as I had to treat Alessia's hair for bloody NITS again! ARRGGHHH! Someone at school has a parent who DOES NOT TREAT! My kids have had them on and off for about 3 months now! So frustrating!

[dippinsniffer]

And one small piece of choc brownie already today as DH's rels came from England via a stop over in Melb for 4 days and for lunch, a croissant with ham and cheese. Will starve rest of day.



This post has been edited by dippinsniffer: 05/04/2011, 11:21 AM

[*Caro*]

I was thinking I might spend 2 days browsing shops . Sound good, ya ?

Sounds bloody excellent, Dip, you lucky biatch!

Am the only one drowning in school paperwork at the moment?! Every time I turn around, there seems to be a note about this, a form about that, excursion money for this kid, permission slip for that kid! I think Hugo is lucky that I feel pregnant with him before Emmy started school - if I had spaced my kids out more and knew about the workload that comes with school aged kids, I may never have gone back for #4!!

Kylie, thanks for your thoughts on Emmy's teacher. I have hardly seen her (the teacher) all week, but Em seems happier and is talking about things at school with much enthusiasm, so it can't be all bad. I did have a word to the teacher last week about the reader being too hard (it was a comic stri[p and all the text was in capitals, so it was just a bit confusing for her). The notes Em is bringing home all sound good to me - the right tone of encouragement, expectation and fun, so I'll sit back and see how things pan out for a bit.

SS, I'm so sorry that the TTC is off the boil I misread your post initially and thought it was just for the month. I hope you and DH can work through this together and that SG gives you lots of good cuddles to help you through the rough patch. You gave it everything you could and you should be proud of the effort you put it in. I'm so sorry you didn't get the result you were after

The exercise-more-and-eat-less-crap health kick here has been going really well. Have hardly eaten choc at all and have been doing lots of walk-runs with the pram. I can't run properly yet, but walking is too slow sometimes, so I do a combo of both. It must be working - my face is bright red for about an hour afterwards!! It was all going well till I was at the supermarket today and feeling exhausted from lack of sleep, and Cadbury's was on sale... So I am now hoeing into a block. Woooops.

Nic and Tombi, if you guys are around, I would love to hear how things are going with your little guys. Hugo is still a 'little' baby. He weighs nearly 8kg, so about middle of the range weight wise, but he isn't crawling, he has very little interest in solids (except if you give him a piece of steak to suck! ) and he still wakes 3 times a night for a feed. So in that regard, he seems young, IYKWIM. He is babbling now and blowing raspberries, and loves to play peek-a-boo type games with the big kids. Angus is still besotted with him, and calls him "My Hugo" which is lovely. Hugo has the most adorable smile and when he sees something funny, his whole face breaks open and his eyes light up. He mostly saves these smiles for his siblings!

That's better, I wrote all the good things about him, rather than the fact that he will only go to sleep after I have fed him for an hour, on my bed in the dark. I didn't focus on the fact that he wakes 3 times a night and takes up to an hour to get to sleep. I didn't worry about the fact that I've had to completely abandon getting him to sleep at home during the day because he.just.won't. And I won't tell you that the sleep deprivation is slowly driving me mad. No no, coz he is cute and that is all that matters.

[manhattan]

Kim, that sucks about the nits. One of J's favorite friends got sent home with them 2 weeks ago and I was sooo afraid I was going to find them in his hair as well but touch wood, we've never had them here. One of the good bits about having all boys, I guess. I was interested in seeing you have swimming at 8AM as I've been thinking we should look into classes before school as we can't seem to make it happen after. Are they just for half an hour and then you head to school? That must be a nice way to start the day once you get used to getting out the door a little earlier. I always much preferred morning exercise myself.

Caro,

I think Hugo is lucky that I feel pregnant with him before Emmy started school - if I had spaced my kids out more and knew about the workload that comes with school aged kids, I may never have gone back for #4!!

I am equally shocked by how much goes into parenting a schoolkid. I feel like people always talk about life getting easier when the children grow up a bit and start school, but I honestly never sit these days and no sooner walk in the door than it's time to head out again.

As for my baby, he has been dragging himself all over the house for a couple months now but only properly crawls on all-fours when it strikes his fancy. He pulls to a stand everywhere and after a week of crashing left, right and center, he is pretty adept at it now and only falls when he gets knocked over (which is, unfortunately, often ). He can cruise a little bit. Physically, he is not as advanced as P was but more than J or L were at this age. He doesn't eat as such. After my last 2 not wanting solids until they were toddlers, I haven't really made much effort to feed him and just sort of throw raw vegetables and chunks of bread and slices of fruit his way when I think of it. I believe this is officially called Baby-Led Solids but truth be told, in my case it's Motherly Laziness. He has no nap schedule whatsoever during the day and just randomly snoozes when and as we manage to fit it in. I usually BF him to sleep around 7PM and then we play this little game where he wakes every half hour or so and I nurse him back to sleep in front of the TV and then eventually give up trying to transfer him back to his portacot and just cuddle him until DH and I go to bed, at which point he conks out right smack in between us and happily sleeps for however many hours. I think I usually feed him again around 3 or something like that, and then he usually starts snacking around 5 and keeps going on and off until he eventually decides he's keen to start the day. As this is usually just after 6, I then punch DH in the shoulder to wake him and he takes M downstairs so I can sleep until 7. So, in some ways, he is very much a baby, and in others, he seems fairly grown-up. I will say he doesn't think he's a baby and just wants to be wherever the big kids are doing whatever they're doing. He knows how to bang hammer toys, and flip through books, and knock down towers and stuff like that, which all seems very advanced, but as soon as he gets tired and hungry he crawls around the house calling "mummummum..." Ah, I could have babies forever...

Toilet stuff: Since we were just discussing this, I thought I'd share that J has suddenly started doing this annoying thing where he'll do a poo and then just jump off and flush without wiping, and then when you call him on it, he says that he actually didn't do a poo but rather just tried and tried and nothing came out. He really sends me spare sometimes. And I went to the shops with L this morning and didn't take him to the toilet while we were there and he unexpectedly fell asleep in the pram an hour and a half earlier than he usually naps...and peed ALL over himself. I was actually paying for something at the supermarket when he woke fussing and I suddenly spied an enormous yellow puddle under the pram.

'night, all.

[dippinsniffer]

Hi there ,
Love seeing two long posts from you guys, obviously when I asked about all these babies about 2 months ago it was the wrong time as I think only Caro answered and I've been longing to hear more so I'm glad you asked again Caro as coincidentally just yesterday I was thinking about how much I wanted to hear how these babies are going but hadn't asked as I was sure no one would answer .

Caro, yes, you getting only 5-6hrs sleep every night would suck big time. It WILL improve .

No, not much paper-work here actually, I got a note about 'Clean up Australia Day' just yesterday asking to bring a bag and gloves and that's it for this week. But the newsletter is online so that helps. Not that I've even logged in to see it, not cause I'm busy (cause obviously I'm not) but because I forget.


Nic, this was almost exactly what we did when ds was a toddler, till he was almost 4 actually (except he wasn't bf till 4 and didn't sleep for "hours"): "I usually BF him to sleep around 7PM and then ... he wakes every half hour or so and I nurse him back to sleep in front of the TV and then eventually give up trying to transfer him back to his portacot and just cuddle him until DH and I go to bed, at which point he conks out right smack in between us and happily sleeps for however many hours"
Nic, what I was wondering yesterday, do you feed L too?


This post has been edited by dippinsniffer: 05/04/2011, 11:23 AM

[manhattan]

Wed - Fri when both kids are in school and I have more than 5hrs before pick-up to do whatever.

See, I only have 3.5 hours between school runs, so it goes fast by the time I cram in a couple things. And yes, I'm still feeding L -- before nap and bedtime. He occasionally asks at other times but I tend not to oblige unless it's really convenient for me.

This post has been edited by manhattan: 03/03/2011, 07:48 AM

[SportySpice]

Morning

reading along about our school kids - and the littlies as well

we've had a bit of a struggle with sgee's behaviour about 4 weeks ago and since i have revoked her sleep over with her 2 best buddies she's behaved better and has been "rewarded" accordingly. This has also taken into account her routine of "home reader', spelling and flute prac as well as ballet and LTS which has improved 100%!

I have found - and I know I just have the one to contend with - after school

activity
then she may be straight into the shower while I start dinner
while i'm still doing dinner she will sit at the dining table and do her home writing words and spelling words. She'll then do her "home reader' to herself asking me any words she doesn't know.
dinner bath blah blah routine
we'll then sit together and she will read her book to me, she has a bit of tv time, then off to bed with another book from me

in the a.m.
she will do a bit of flute prac and go over her spelling words
while i drive her up to school she does her spelling in the car to me or reads her book again to me.

I've just found the whole car thing now a great way to revise all sorts of things, no matter where we go i keep a list of her spelling words - which I try and learn off by heart too! - and just ask her about it and I also ask her about what her book was about as well - get the comprehensive skills going too!

on the w'ends we'll usually go to her websites and have a go at some of the activities.

that's generally how we manage it but of course some days are just a nightmare!

better get back to work - very busy with 26 march looming!

[Snagglepussed]

That must be a nice way to start the day once you get used to getting out the door a little earlier.

Oh yes NIc very noice - especially when she has a buff brazilian swimming instructor called Carlos! LOL Who (I might add) I get to perve on again in teh afternoon when I take A back for her class as he is still there slogging away at it (poor thing) Ha!

I find life pretty busy with 2 school kids but I think it is the drop off/pick up conundrum that takes away from the day! It breaks it into three separate times whereas when they were babies the days were long and one stretch.....albeit busy in a different way!

Not many notes here - got the Clean up one too and now (DANG) I have to go and buy gloves for them as we don't have any! Ugh!
Newsletter is via email and that's about it really!

Want to do something nice with hubby and need suggestions for a nice FUN night out! Went to The Basement the other week but it just isn't doing it for us anymore! Overkill maybe....
I was thinking The Retro for a dance as it's been YEARS since I went out dancing and with JLo's new song out I want to boogie! LOL.... Peter Pan syndrome maybe!
So seriuosly......we need to reconnect and we need FUN so give us your advice ladies!
I'd love to take him to Mardi Gras but I think we've missed the boat with that one........too hard to organise the kids for an allnighter as you have to stay out late for that one!
So this weekend is off (also because hubby is out Fri night for a farewell for one of the guys at his work)....

Dip - you are such a sweet tooth! Stop it woman! And as for your tactless mate ----- ouch! That bites.....
See I can pretty much do without the sweets and chocolate etc.....but I love nuts and cheese and crackers and what not .... sigh!

At work and should get to it! I am wearing a dress today for the first time in ages (usually wear jeans) and I am waiting for the JOb Interview questions! Ha! My Boss just said "Nice haircut" - which I had two weeks ago so the dress has done something! LOL

Byeeeeeeee

[SportySpice]

Kim - i love luna park ... nothing like the slides and dodgem cars and there is a bar/restuarant thingy there now.... few "ferals" here and there but go at say 6pm-ish followed by dinner say at Aqua at 9pm!

And I lovvvvvvvvvvvvvve Retro! Another bar/pub is the Argyle down at the Rocks - huge and great for people watching while sitting back on the comfy lounges and always nice to have a stroll by the water... and there is Quay for dinner!